Smart Thinking: Skills for Critical Understanding and Writing, 2nd Ed

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For Jane and Verity (as ever) ...

SMART THINKING SKILLS FOR CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING AND WRITING Second Edition MATTHEW ALLEN OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS ...

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 253 Normanby Road, South Melbourne, Victoria 3205, Australia Oxford University Press is a department of ...

Contents Preface to First Edition viii Preface to Second Edition ix ...

1 Smart Thinking How to Use this Book xi What is smart thinking? How do we study smart thinking? Why do we need to 'think sma ...

10 Bringing It All Together: Narrative and Structure Example text Casting and notes on each paragraph Capturing the essence of t ...

Preface to First Edition The study and teaching of critical thinking (also known as informal logic) is relatively rare in Austra ...

PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION ix vast scale, with far too little critical analysis to support it. It is precisely at the junction bet ...

x PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION it. But I have also made some significant changes, including greater assistance in the earlier chapt ...

How to Use this Book To get the most out of this book, you will need to read it carefully chapter by chapter. The book builds se ...

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1 Smart Thinking There is an inner logic, and we're taught to stay far from it It is simple and elegant, but it's cruel and anti ...

2 SMART THINKING: SKILLS FOR CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING & WRITING establish a framework or structure in which your basic facts ...

SMART THINKING 3 below and, writing on a piece of paper, list some examples in your own life of when you have successfully done ...

4 SMART THINKING: SKILLS FOR CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING & WRITING your decision in the way that all of us take for granted (by t ...

SMART THINKING 5 finding answers ('Why did the government decide on a higher-quality digital television standard?') justifying ...

6 SMART THINKING: SKILLS FOR CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING & WRITING Thinkers with attitude Remember, smart thinking always has a s ...